Attahiru Alhassan, 48, the Chief Imam of Enagi Town in Lavun Local Government Area of Niger State, has been stabbed to death for allegedly having a sexual relationship with another man’s wife.

He was reportedly stabbed by one Umaru Jibrin, 35, husband to Aisha Umar, after the former discovered the affair.

Jubrin, who was paraded at the Police Headquarters in Minna on Tuesday, said on the day he caught his wife with the Chief Imam, Alhassan had walked past him into a neighbour’s house.

Almost at the same time, he said his wife told him she was going to a toilet behind the compound.

He explained when he did not see his wife for about an hour, he decided to go searching for her only for him to hear her voice in the neighbour’s house.

Jubrin further explained that he became furious when the Chief Imam called him for dialogue over the incident and was not ready to take any blame that he did wrong.

“In the course of the discussion, things became heated, we argued with each other and I forcefully collected the iron rod with Alhaji Alhassan and stabbed him in the neck,” he said.

Jubrin, while trying to escape, was apprehended at Batati village in Lavun Local Government Area of the state by some youths of Enagi town. When the news spread round the town, angry youths mobilised to the Police station in an attempt to lynch the suspect, forcing operatives to take him down to the Police Headquarters in Minna.

Speaking while being paraded in Minna, Jubrin said that he regretted his action as he did not know it will lead to the Imam’s death.

DSP Wasiu Abiodun, the Niger state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), who briefed journalists said the suspect confessed he killed the Imam in the bout of anger